Flexi-law amendments

From
Mark Frogley

I wholeheartedly agree with Paul Davies that what we regard as physical laws may well have been different at earlier times in the universe (30 June, p 30). However, the attempts to rationalise this phenomenon in his article are clearly flawed because they assume that the laws of quantum physics and information theory are themselves constant and multi-universal.

The problem is clearly illustrated when Davies asks us to consider the universe as a giant computer, with a finite capacity for performing calculations, and later proposes that this capacity (the Lloyd limit) potentially leads to ways of observing the effects …